Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery
BUTTERFIELD FAMILY CHAPEL AND VAULT OPPOSITE MAIN GATEWAY OF UTLEY CEMETERY, SKIPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134033
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERFIELD FAMILY CHAPEL AND VAULT OPPOSITE MAIN GATEWAY OF UTLEY CEMETERY, SKIPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134033
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Butterfield Family Chapel and Vault Opposite Main Gateway of Utley Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTERFIELD FAMILY CHAPEL AND VAULT OPPOSITE MAIN GATEWAY OF UTLEY CEMETERY, SKIPTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTERFIELD FAMILY CHAPEL AND VAULT OPPOSITE MAIN GATEWAY OF UTLEY CEMETERY, SKIPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Keighley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0568542806
Details
The following building shall be added:
KEIGHLEY SKIPTON ROAD
1. (North -east side)
Utley
SE 04 SE Butterfield Family Chapel
and Vault opposite main
5/299 gateway of Utley Cemetery
II
2.
Family chapel and vault. c 1875. For the Butterfield family, of Cliffe Cattle (q.v.)
Ashlar sandstone. Miniature single-cell chapel raised on vault built into bank and entered
from rear. In Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth; corner buttresses with granite
colonnettes and goblets. Copper-plated wooden double doors with openwork lights set in
square-treated opening beneath carved heraldic device with motto and inscription
'BUTTERFIELD FAMILY OF CLIFF CASTLE' crocketted niche and ashlar gable copings with
apex cross. A square column rises from centre of ridge and has figurine beneath canopy on
each side; pyramidal apex raised on colonnette.
Rear: traceried ashlar vault doors under moulded arch; plain plate tracery 3 light window above. Returns" traceried parapet on corbel table interrupted by a cusped triangular light
set beneath a pointed arch an half hipped dormer. Ashlar roof with scale patterning.
Interior: chapel has wooden wall plaque with names for those interred, damaged stained glass
window. The monument is set within an iron railed enclosure.
Listing NGR: SE0568542806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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